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Very chill.
Drums being realistic is well placed. The sea of bizarre, overdone, and 4/4 beats makes this stand out for the better.
Didn't strike me as repetitive, the music was engaging, highly listenable, the sample in the middle is a nice bit of auditory information. In a weird way I found it added 'meaning' to this song, which hopefully is best interpreted by the listener.
5/5 10/10. I wouldn't change this, its concrete as is.
Here goes objective criticism.
Intro is weak, clap is annoying, lack of any variance is the most profound aspect.
Synths comes in, song improves.
Well produced/mastered/balanced. Some would say the siren sound/kicks are quite obnoxious, bit given their supposed to be that way, production value of them is good for all intensive purposes.
Little sound effect rolls or whatever you would like to call them are cool, really the only unique thing about the song other then the random audio tape samples.
Musically this is exceptionally simple, would highly benefit from a more conventional setup of melody/harmony/bass instead of just melody and bass doing the same thing.
5:35, not enjoyable, no deviation from the buzzing sound makes it more siren in your face-esque then sound one would want to listen to. Song could have been nipped a bit, or end on that buzzing sound a bit more quickly.
Use of samples is 'good', but in my mind is the high point of the song, which could be far far more thoroughly done. Cutting the sample into individual words and syncing it all to beat would be an easy step that would take less then an hour to do, and make the voice a far more coherent part of the song as if it were singing. Perhaps a bit of stutter effects with it too when it first comes in. Typed out would look like "The-the-these were h-h-h-h-hard times."
Then to really go above and beyond, take the voice, cut, crop and sync to the music, turn part of it into a chorus, pitch bend so its playing appropriate notes, and just make the voice not just a literally cut and pasted sample, but an instrument.
I've left reviews with you in the past, and chatted with you before, and as per usual, you've got the software and the skill, but should focus more on attention to detail, and really pump out some beasts instead of commercial house/trance. While this song is overall quite good, the genre has a relatively low standard of quality in composition, and should be not too difficult to blow other songs of the similar nature out of the water.
i think the intro is good in my opinion:D
love breakbeat intros in hardstyle tunes:P but i think i know what your saying...you think it sould be more ....hitting am i right
and yeah musically its rather simple but hardstyle is a rather simple genre not that it justifies anything, i will work more on that in the future
the comment about the vocal sample would work more i think in either the first part( after the intro) or the last part of the song as i think it has to be a pure narritation in the climax and i think most would agree with me
"I've left reviews with you in the past, and chatted with you before, and as per usual, you've got the software and the skill, but should focus more on attention to detail, and really pump out some beasts instead of commercial house/trance"
you know what?
just for you( and the head of my lable) im going to go reeeeeally deep on the next track
gonna make it a progressive indy house.
"While this song is overall quite good, the genre has a relatively low standard of quality in composition, and should be not too difficult to blow other songs of the similar nature out of the water. "
so true but i guess thats why i completed this one in a few hours
thanks for an awesome review and hope youll check me out in the future just as i will do to you
Friendship is good.
I'm really liking your ambient stuff. (I use the term ambient lightly, I know how it is when picking the songs genre and nothing is quite close enough.)
Great contrast from building up to playing a more down tempo theme. Drum's help the song flow, a bit like well done punctuation.
Piano's chord progression is what sold this song to me.
I think a bit more of a finite ending, or cleaner loop would have been great for this, however, as is, as an mp3, it wouldn't normally loop into itself, so I guess thats just a matter of NGs setup.
1 Dimensional
I understand hardstyle/gabber/rectumanarchy or w/e you want to call it is ment to be maxed out and all, but the mix on this isn't good aside from that. Tunes super simple, drums are just a constant drone (I get thats the genre too but adding in something new always helps make one stand out).
My recomendation here would be export each track on its own, put them back in the music program you initially made them with, and mix them. That way you will get the distorted sounds you want, and have the option to balance everything, add stereo/proper bass and all that.
Not bad but this is super duper simple and should be greatly expanded on.
Sorry dude.
Yes experimenting with sampling is fine, and poking a joke at WoW is good too.
But voices need compression/subtle reverb, added bass, maybe chorus on the females or something, plus more diverse chopping. The voices just got annoying and the over done kick isn't much better.
More effort next time and it would be pretty sweet, like 52 seconds bit is cool, you just need more of that plus some mastering to make the sounds themselves not sound like their cutting themselves.
i dont know how to do that ;p.. not much you can do with sound recorder based technology.. :P
Lacks mastering of any form.
Not bad overall, but this desperately needs some bass, seperate channel effects for the drums, the phased snare/hihat/rim sound or whatever it originally was becomes a bit much after a while and takes away from the other aspects of the music.
This would highly benefit from a bit of panning and even minimal mastering to help define one sound from another.
Drum and song setup was good, though it is rather short.
I think the quick fix would be use some different synth sounds.
I just figured out how to use the effects bar so i went a little overboard i guess.
Underwhelming.
The composition/build of the song is fine, but the over-processed/loud kick drowns out the few samples and synths you've used. After a bit all one hears is the 4/4 aprox 150bpm kicks.
Layer your main melody synth a bit, lower kicks volume and instead add some bass to it. Compress vocals and main synth with basic compression, nothing fancy is needed, just lay some defaults on it.
Why would you want people to not rate if they don't like this genre? You would be wasting your time asking for any advice if everyone was just going to tell you its 'uber-wicked-meat-sauce'.
I WISH I COULD LOWER THE BASS BUT I ONLY USE A FRUITY LOOPS DEMO WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY LAYER THE MELODY? AND BASIC COMPOSITION . I'VE TRIED ADDING A BASS BUT IT NEVER REALLY FITS IN!
I I TELL PEOPLE ONLY TO RATE MY SONGS IF THEY LIKE THE GENRE BECAUSE IM SICK OF PEOPLE TELLING ME THIS MUSIC SUCKS WITH NO REASONING AND WHERES THE RAP OR GUITAR THESE COMMENTS GET VERY ANNOYING
PLEASE LEAVE A MESSAGE TO EXPLIAN THESE THINGS AND THE BASS IS ACCUALLY 157BPM:D
Did the FL Speech synth not seem like a bad idea?
7 cause the song without the "Peaness" isn't bad (With it is around a 2-3).
Raw unedited/uneffected drums straight from FL don't sound good. So do something about them. Synths and melody plus effects/sweeps and rolls are all pretty nice, and the mix is good.
Do something about the "Peaness" replace it with a word that people might think is some how meaningful.
omg yes cuz i doant wanna offend people by saying PENIS so i writed peaness instead lol
Almost sounds like "My heart will go on" melody.
I'm liking your mix of real and fake instruments / digitized beats. I think its a nice contrast you would expect to hear in some meaningful movie where the narrator is evidently 'black' sounding.
Only thing I think this really needs is the piano to be made to sound less robotic, the rest is quite fine and dandy.
Good improvement.
I think the name change is probably a wise one.
All this needs now is length and some alternate melodies. The new mastering job is much much better.
Good stuff, 4'd.
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